As Hannawa puts it “Communication is an interpersonal meaning-making process” which occursbetweennot within people. Yet the assumption is often that everybody has the same understanding of terminology or jargon. This “common ground fallacy” can result not only in patient safety issues, but als...
Chantelle Baxter is the Cofounder of One Girl, a nonprofit that helps girls and women create change. She is working on LaunchPad, a project that sells affordable sanitary pads to girls and women in Sierra Leone.
Especially in the historical context, annotating lin-guists have to be aware of a comparative fallacy that emerges when researchers fall into the error of investigating one language by comparing it to another, for example, their native language. The historicity of the language under investiga-tion...
I detect the logical fallacy of “both-sides-ism.” The policy of independent Ukraine has been peaceful coexistence. Russia has been an expansionist colonial empire for about 450 years. Since 1945, Europe has only one land-grabbing military aggressor. Only one of these two combata...
and economic democracy.Asthe book’ssubtitle suggested,acentral thesiswas thatthe“keytothe‘Scandinavian model’”was the expansion of the publicsector under the stewardshipofstrongsocial democratic parties, although theauthorsalso insisted that it wasafallacy toregardthe Scandinavian countriesas“...